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Micah Escobedo

@micahescobedo.bsky.social

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liberal humanist. incurable idealist. curious homo (sapien). enjoyer of moderately priced dry wines & black coffee. california heart//east coast mind. all views obviously mine. 📍dc

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Micah Escobedo @micahescobedo.bsky.social · 16h

If you—like me—have been obsessed with Louisiana v Callais for the last several days, you *must* read this excellent piece:

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

www.nytimes.com

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Martin Luther King III @officialmlk3.bsky.social · 8d

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 10d

What’s amazing about this is that it’s not activists, it’s random people in the street, dudes in trucks. They know who the villain is.

I think MAGA has a bigger problem here than they realize

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 10d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Micah Escobedo @micahescobedo.bsky.social · 10d

about last night 🪩

Micah Escobedo @micahescobedo.bsky.social · 14d

same, girl

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Micah Escobedo @micahescobedo.bsky.social · 15d

Micah Escobedo @micahescobedo.bsky.social · 19d

golden ✨ company

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Micah Escobedo @micahescobedo.bsky.social · 21d

eat your heart out, john waters 🦩

Micah Escobedo @micahescobedo.bsky.social · 23d

ooo ✌🏻

Micah Escobedo @micahescobedo.bsky.social · 28d

…and you gotta love (absolutely loathe) how many ‘free speech champions’ are completely full of shit.

Micah Escobedo @micahescobedo.bsky.social · 28d

Like McCarthyism and the Satanic Panic, this faux moral panic is driven and fueled by cynical, self-serving ideologues and charlatans. It's insane and stupid and scary all at once. I know we'll get through this dumbass era, but damn is it unsettling.

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Micah Escobedo @micahescobedo.bsky.social · Sep 10

If you’re spiraling, get the f*ck off social media for a few hours. No one knows what’s going to happen in the next few minutes, let alone the next few days. Speculating about violent escalation should stay in the drafts.

Seriously, you’re helping no one by poasting through it.

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Micah Escobedo @micahescobedo.bsky.social · Sep 10

Guys, this isn’t hard; it’s possible to recognize/condemn Charlie Kirk’s hateful ideology and political style while also understanding that he was just as deserving of life and liberty as everyone else.

Normalized political violence doesn’t end well — for anyone.

Micah Escobedo @micahescobedo.bsky.social · Sep 10

hey how about we all just stfu for a little while

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Sep 9

Sure seems like Big Pharma spent way way more energy, money and lobbying capital on fighting Dems on prescription drugs than doing anything about the Secretary of HHS casually, and without any real evidence, telling everyone their products kill kids and give them autism.

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Micah Escobedo @micahescobedo.bsky.social · Sep 9

tuesday

Micah Escobedo @micahescobedo.bsky.social · Sep 6

📍marching down 16th street to the white house (timelapse via the post’s azi paybarah)

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MLC @chicyph80.bsky.social · Sep 6

But I’ve been told Dems in Congress are useless and doing nothing to stop all of this.

Surely people aren’t overreacting and missing the forrest for the trees….

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Micah Escobedo @micahescobedo.bsky.social · Sep 5

📍chinatown

Micah Escobedo @micahescobedo.bsky.social · Sep 4

💆🏻‍♂️

Micah Escobedo @micahescobedo.bsky.social · Sep 4

this 👏 is 👏 the 👏 message 👏

Democrats @democrats.org · Sep 3

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social: We welcome anyone to join this movement.

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · Sep 2

Below is my new post about our Three Stages of Religious Decline paper (www.nature.com/articles/s41...).

We argue that a similar process of decline affects countries on every populated continent, including countries in which Christianity, Islam, Buddhism or Hinduism is the largest religion.

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How religion declines around the world

A country’s religious affiliation tends to decline in three transitional stages that unfold across generations, a new paper using Center data proposes.

www.pewresearch.org

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · Sep 3

"Fuck Them Kids" — Republican Proverb

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · Sep 3

BREAKING Florida moves to end all school vaccine mandates, first in nation to do so. @davidovalle.bsky.social

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Florida moves to end all school vaccine mandates, first in nation to do so

Florida Surgeon General Joseph A. Ladapo criticized school vaccine mandates, which every state has, and likened them to slavery.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Micah Escobedo @micahescobedo.bsky.social · Sep 3

“these edibles ain’t sh*t.”

30 mins later:

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · Sep 3

A federal appeals court on Tuesday reinstated a Democrat who was fired by President Trump from the Federal Trade Commission earlier this year, dealing a blow to Trump’s monthslong attempt to permanently remove her from the consumer protection and antitrust enforcement agency.

Federal Appeals Court Reinstates an F.T.C. Commissioner Fired by Trump

The court said the commissioner, Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, had been illegally terminated “without cause.”

nyti.ms

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